NNM 7.53 and use of "filters" file

Hello,

I am very new to NNM and I am slotted to take the HP NNM administration class in May. Our previous administrator retired and we have a "filters" file that is less than informational on why certain choices were made. Does anyone have any good examples of their setup(don't discover printers, dont' discover certain domain, don't discover names="pc*", don't discover certain OIDs, etc.)? Or can you point me to a good best practices document on the filters file? Thank you in advance.

Re: NNM 7.53 and use of "filters" file

In NNM by default the discovery is not limited to certain devices, if you want to limit it to certain group of devices you have to create your custom filter with all you inclusions and exclusions and use this filter as discovery filter by the below steps: